Charles Dickens
Full Name: Charles John Huffam Dickens
Birthdate: February 7, 1812
Birthplace: Landport, Portsmouth, England, United Kingdom
Date of Death: June 9, 1870
Occupation: Author
Profile: Regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian Era. Best known for
Oliver Twist.
Website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Dickens
Number of Quotes: 6
Every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.
Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.
Here's the rule for bargains:
Do other men, for they would do you.
That's the true business precept.
The persons on whom I have bestowed my dearest love, lie deep in their graves; but, although the happiness and delight of my life lie buried there
too, I have not made a coffin of my heart, and sealed it up, for ever, on my best affections. Deep affliction has but strengthened and refined them.
You are a human boy, my young friend.
A human boy. O glorious to be a human boy! ...
O running stream of sparkling joy
To be a soaring human boy!
You could draw me to fire, you could draw me to water, you could draw me to the gallows, you could draw me to any death, you could draw me to anything I
have most avoided, you could draw me to any exposure and disgrace. This and the confusion of my thoughts, so that I am fit for nothing, is what I mean by your
being the ruin of me. But if you would return a favourable answer to my offer of marriage, you could draw me to any good - every good - with equal force.
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